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During the time I was making my living as a Custom Knifemaker I really enjoyed those times I got a project that allowed me to carefully setup a machine and then spend hours making parts. Something liberating about watching something be created. I would get to the point that my movements where almost like a dance step.

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Up in Oregon there is a whole darn lumber mill running on steam-power - the Hull-Oakes lumber Co of Dawson, not far from Corvallis. Until fairly recently the pick-up train used to reverse all the way there with a M&N transfer caboose - no turn-around facility at the plant end....

Sadly, that all stopped and the FP is now hauled out by truck. See you there in a couple of weeks!

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Up in Oregon there is a whole darn lumber mill running on steam-power - the Hull-Oakes lumber Co of Dawson, not far from Corvallis. Until fairly recently the pick-up train used to reverse all the way there with a M&N transfer caboose - no turn-around facility at the plant end....

Sadly, that all stopped and the FP is now hauled out by truck. See you there in a couple of weeks!

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I've never seen this one, but there is another at the Antique Powerland in Brooks Oregon. I remember going as a kid and being amazed by the entire process.

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I went to the Thrashing bee (the pre Steam Up) with my grandfather when they were here in Silverton on Harvey Mikkelson's farm just out towards Bethany market. There's a Seventh Day Adventist church there now. They would harvest a few acres of wheat during the day and it was mostly a farmers picnic.

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Steam power - gotta love it. I worked a steam train crew for a few years at the rail museum in Sacramento and had a blast - at least in the cooler weather. They used to have a huge steam demonstration with everything from washing machines to tractors at the CA state fair - unfortunately over the last 10 years or so the area they had to set up in was cut in half almost every year - about 5 years ago when I last saw it they no longer had the room available to demonstrate the steam tractors and all but a few steam motors were simply on static display.

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